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Bowen Therapy

Post Natal Massage $10 Off

With a Therapeutic or Bowen Massage at Toni Nicol therapies, you can help your body get back to normal naturally after a baby.

It is vitally important to take care of yourself after the birth of a little one. As a new mum, it is natural for your priorities to shift. Your life now revolves around the all-important tasks of caring for the latest addition to your family.

These demands can take its toll on your health and well-being.

A Post Natal Massage with Toni Nicol therapies is a gentle and relaxing treatment session. This session will help you feel more at one with yourself as your overall wellness in mind, body, spirit improve.

To find out how effective a Post Natal Massage can be to help your body get back to normal naturally after a baby (….more)

Premium Bliss

The premium treatment focuses on the head, shoulders, back, legs and feet and uses a combination of the best traditional and therapeutic modalities (from Swedish Massage, Accupressure, Therapeutic, Relaxation, Reflexology, Aroma Touch and Bowen) separating tensions and leaving your body to melt in total relaxation. (more…)

Pregnancy Massage

Pregnancy Massage Treatments are available before, during and after: tailored for your comfort throughout all stages of development.

Bowen Technique can assist both partners with being at their optimum physical, emotional and mental peak so that conception can occur naturally.

By being relaxed, rebalanced and detoxed, the body will be in a healthy state for becoming pregnant.

Bowen Technique can then benefit the mother to be, with many of the changes that occur through pregnancy, morning sickness, tiredness, lethargy, tender breasts, back pain, neck and shoulder tension, (more…)

Bowen Therapy

Bowen Therapy was named after its inventor Tom Bowen who developed the technique in the 1950’s and 1960’s and treated some 13,000 people a year by 1975. Bowen Therapy resets the body to heal its self, the Bowen moves are gentle and extremely effective, gentle rolls are made across tendons or muscles working on the fascia. It can be done through light clothing but is easier to work directly onto the skin. Bowen is not massage or manipulation, it is a highly effective modality for a range of conditions, treating young babies to the elderly.

Bowen treatment affects the body in many complex ways. It promotes healing naturally, provides pain and stress relief with recovery of energy. The experience of the treatment is typically relaxing, gentle, and so subtle. These features are make Bowen Therapy so popular and unique.

Bowen Therapy allows and encourages the body to reset and heal itself naturally. Treatment consists of a series of rolling moves over muscles, tendons, ligaments and nerves using a varying touch. There are often pauses between the moves that allow the body time to benefit from each set. Through the combination of moves, both in placement and in sequence the Toni can address the body holistically or target certain areas.

Bowen stimulates energy flows, resulting in a deep relaxation. Restoration commences when the body is relaxed and will continues as the body increasingly returns to homeostasis. Your healing Bowen session initiates many changes that may unfold over a few days.

Aftercare will include any transitory reactions; recommendations for follow up treatments with the emphasis placed on the importance of natural movement, particularly walking, drinking water.

Post treatment care is essential as Bowen promotes tissue hydration it is important clients do not dehydrate and drink enough water to meet the changing body demands. Avoiding dehydration through improved foods and lifestyle is important.

Some reactions you could experience are lethargy or flu like symptoms such as stiffness and headaches. Some may experience emotional changes or dream activity. These should not be seen negatively or the reason to cease treatment. They show the treatment has successfully initiated the change processes in seeking to restore balance and indicate further treatments are required.

Reactions after treatment vary with clients reporting a sudden increase in energy levels or even sleepiness.

Avoid hot baths and showers

Avoid lifting heavy objects

Avoid strenuous exercise programs

Drink sufficient water

A light program of walking or swimming is beneficial.

Other manipulative sessions after a Bowen treatment can undermine the effectiveness of the Bowen work. Please wait a week before other body work is commenced.